What are we trying to prove here, with the transformation of the South Lawn of the White House – in February – into a Claude Monet-inspired water-lily garden for the state dinner to honor French premier Francois Hollande? Seriously, the guy’s not even bringing a Sig-O: someone to at least look glamorous in a Dior gown and some bangles or something. All we get to see is his beagle-like mug suspended over a tux. How much is this costing the American taxpayer?

Equally to the point, why is Monet being used as the inspiration for a costly, over-the-top outdoors-in-the-dead-of-winter shindig, when it would be more appropriate – and a lot cheaper – to go with an iconic image from American art?

At LU, we’ve assembled some lower-budget suggestions. Come up with your own, if you like. The possibilities are endless.

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Hollande is the most pro-American and pro-Israel French President since the 1950s. And he was also the prime target of the horrible "Day of Anger" protest that also featured vile expressions of anti-Semitism just a few weeks ago. We should be supporting and saluting him, not ridiculing the state dinner in his honor!

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